Work · Film · 2009

Fantastic Mr. Fox

Wes Anderson, director and screenwriter · Noah Baumbach, screenwriter

Studio: 20th Century Fox Animation / Indian Paintbrush
Units: 1 film, 1 cut
imdb: tt0432283

A stop-motion feature that treats Dahl's short book as roughly its middle act, building an entire invented first act, family rivalry, and supermarket-heist ending around it.

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Novel 1970 → Film 2009 · Direct adaptationFantastic Mr Fox to Fantastic Mr. FoxThe film keeps 14 of the novel's 18 chapters, among them the three farmers, the siege, the tunnel raids, and Bean's cider cellar, and adds ten invented arcs around them, including a newspaper job, a cousin rivalry, and a supermarket ending.74composite · editorial

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